[llamaorama]

These cities need to up their game. We can post pictures of western or asian style skyscraper and mall districts all day long to insinuate that these places are modern, but in the year 2021 in a globalized world there is nothing special about such things. Luanda looks like it could be a city in Brazil with like 1/5 the population and household incomes that have a few extra zeroes at the end.

I think the first step would be some kind of metro system. At a minimum, you could get around the city reliably. And the metro would be pretty self contained, it would have its own electric utility and water supply.